After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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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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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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