They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESpeeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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