The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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What 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.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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