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 TROLLOPEA 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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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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