Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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