Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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 mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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