The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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What is there that money will not do?
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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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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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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