My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPoverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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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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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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