I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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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.
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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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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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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