I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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