That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETravel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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A 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.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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