The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPerhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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