In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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