Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThat I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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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 doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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What is there that money will not do?
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