No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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