Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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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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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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