The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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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What is there that money will not do?
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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