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 TROLLOPEThe habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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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 double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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They 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.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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