What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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