What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
ANTHONY TROLLOPERomance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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.
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