Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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