That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMy sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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