The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is such a difference between life and theory.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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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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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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