Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhy 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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOne can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere 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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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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESuch 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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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What is there that money will not do?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat is there that money will not do?
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