The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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What is there that money will not do?
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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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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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Romance 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.
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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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