If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThey who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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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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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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What is there that money will not do?
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