There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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