English - Author | April 24, 1815 - December 6, 1882
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.
Anthony Trollope
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Life is so unlike theory.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
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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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A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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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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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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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
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