Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is such a difference between life and theory.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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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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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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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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