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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.
Anthony Trollope
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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
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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 ain't a bit ashamed of anything.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.
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There's nothing like going on with a thing.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards - 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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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Easy reading requires hard writing.
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It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.
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Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.
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It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
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