Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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