There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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