The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMy sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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