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 TROLLOPEThere is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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