A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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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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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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