Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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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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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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