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 TROLLOPEThey who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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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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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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