After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENever think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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What is there that money will not do?
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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