What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about 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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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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