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 TROLLOPEIf a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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 never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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