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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.

Anthony Trollope

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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Bless Great Happy Raed While
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Kick Man Over Pretty Room Say Seventy Show Unless Word
The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Circumstance Declare Dependent Duration Matter Nature Seem Simple Such Trail Understood
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Many More Much People Talk
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Dose Poison Small Success Taken
It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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Angry Done Incline Little Naturally Other Proof Reach Singular Speak Think
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 TROLLOPE

Certainty Congregate Ebit May Men Number One Ten Through Women
If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Atlantic Before Country Cross Fall Invariably Journey Love Over Woman
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Altogether Change Character Expect Girl Himself Man Married New Put Shall Suit Think Wife Woman
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Himself Man Much No Nothing Think
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Book Civil Coffee Cup Earth Ecer Everything Luxurious More
The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Alloy Fade Habit Know One Only Other Pleasure Read When
No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Dare Ever Imitate No Novelist Style Young
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Esteem Long Love Lst Much Passionate Rarely Troublesome Valuable Very
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Coin Hemisphere More Sweetheart
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Become Clan Doctrine Interest Large Man Politician Slow Subversive Unnecessary

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