If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEDon’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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