Best Quotes by Anthony Trollope (Top 10)
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.
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Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Of all needs a book has, the chief need is to be readable.
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More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Above all else, never think you're not good enough.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
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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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They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.
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The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Life is so unlike theory.
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She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never condescended to construct a decoration.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
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He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
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