That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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But 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.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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