There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMany people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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