That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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