The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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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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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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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of 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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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