A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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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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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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