There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

Anthony Trollope · Doctor Thorne (1858), ch. 18

It had at this time become my custom… to write with my watch before me, and to require from myself 250 words every quarter of an hour.

Anthony Trollope · The source reads: “It had at this time become my custom… to write with my watch before me, and to require from myself 250 words every quarter of an hour. I have found that the 250 words have been forthcoming as regularly as my watch went.” · An Autobiography (1883), ch. 15

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

Anthony Trollope

There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood.

Anthony Trollope · Orley Farm (1861)

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“There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.”

“It had at this time become my custom… to write with my watch before me, and to require from myself 250 words every quarter of an hour.”

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

“There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood.”

“Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.”

“The idea that a nation can tax itself into prosperity is one of the cruelest delusions which has ever befuddled the human mind.”

“A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends: but a poor man being down is thrust also away by his friends.”