The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEDon’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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 small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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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.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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