That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELike his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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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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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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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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