It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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