Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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