The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThose who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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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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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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