Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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