But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA husband is very much like a house or a horse.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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