If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAny one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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