That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETill we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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