Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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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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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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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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