The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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