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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThis habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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