I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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