Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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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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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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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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