Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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