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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPassionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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