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 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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Beware of creating tedium!
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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