If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPoverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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