The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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This 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.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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