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.

Quote by Anthony Trollope

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Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye...

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye...

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

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

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong...

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong...

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit...

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit...

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty...

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty...

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is...

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is...

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

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

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter...

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter...

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

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

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a...

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a...

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

Life is so unlike theory.

Life is so unlike theory.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so...

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so...

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the...

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the...

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which...

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which...