The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAfter money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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