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 TROLLOPENobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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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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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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