The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELove is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to 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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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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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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