Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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What is there that money will not do?
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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