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 TROLLOPEThose who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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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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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What is there that money will not do?
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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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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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