People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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