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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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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 daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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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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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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