That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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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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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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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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