But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThis 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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