The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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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.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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