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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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