That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThat I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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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.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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