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 TROLLOPEThe 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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 who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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