But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThat I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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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.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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