That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
A 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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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