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.
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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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