I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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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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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 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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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