I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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