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 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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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