But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERomance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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