I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThey are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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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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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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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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