I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEDon’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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