It 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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