What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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