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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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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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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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