That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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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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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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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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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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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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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.
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