That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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