What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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What is there that money will not do?
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