It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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