What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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