One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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