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 TROLLOPEAudacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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