No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELove is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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 hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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