If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThat I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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