All Anthony Trollope Quotes
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.
Anthony Trollope
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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.
Anthony Trollope
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
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Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
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The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
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It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
Anthony Trollope
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
Anthony Trollope
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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