But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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