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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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 girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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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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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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