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Anthony Trollope Quotes: The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
         

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.


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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.



Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.



Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.



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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.



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.

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.



There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.



Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.



Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.





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