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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEFor there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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