We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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