This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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