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.

Quote by Anthony Trollope

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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.

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would...

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would...

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want...

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want...

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...

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.

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which...

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which...

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...

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear...

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear...

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the...

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the...

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may...

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may...

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...

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted...

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted...

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any...

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any...

Life is so unlike theory.

Life is so unlike theory.