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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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