The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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