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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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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