This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEFortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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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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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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Of 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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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