Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
ANTHONY TROLLOPECaveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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 never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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