The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENever 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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I 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.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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