I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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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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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.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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