Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.

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Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Anthony Trollope

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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

Anthony Trollope

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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

Anthony Trollope

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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

Anthony Trollope

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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it. by Anthony Trollope

One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

Anthony Trollope

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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer. by Anthony Trollope

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

Anthony Trollope

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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.

Anthony Trollope

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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at las... by Anthony Trollope

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of him... by Anthony Trollope

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

Anthony Trollope

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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily. by Anthony Trollope

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

Anthony Trollope

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There is such a difference between life and theory. by Anthony Trollope

There is such a difference between life and theory.

Anthony Trollope

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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide... by Anthony Trollope

The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.

Anthony Trollope

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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is abo... by Anthony Trollope

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Anthony Trollope

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Beware of creating tedium! by Anthony Trollope

Beware of creating tedium!

Anthony Trollope

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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours... by Anthony Trollope

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

Anthony Trollope

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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. by Anthony Trollope

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

Anthony Trollope

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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you... by Anthony Trollope

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Anthony Trollope

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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.

Anthony Trollope

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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their hones... by Anthony Trollope

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

Anthony Trollope

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