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English - Author April 24, 1815 - December 6, 1882

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

Anthony Trollope

Poverty Misery Should Rural

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.

Anthony Trollope

Plants Grow Strong Know

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

Anthony Trollope

Gentleman More Though Much

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

Life Evening Parent I Can

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

Anthony Trollope

Dress Gentleman Hold Whose

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

Anthony Trollope

Good Man You People

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Anthony Trollope

Love God Love Is Book

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

Anthony Trollope

Night Never Done Some

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

Anthony Trollope

Love Long More Last

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Anthony Trollope

Man Nothing About Himself

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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.

Anthony Trollope

Good Power Looks Person

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

Anthony Trollope

Best Dress Dressed Whose

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.

Anthony Trollope

You Fly Feeling Stand

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

Anthony Trollope

Road Wealth Easy Matrimony

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

Anthony Trollope

Down Only Up The Only Thing

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

Anthony Trollope

Woman Fight Battle Better

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Anthony Trollope

Work Only Human Equal

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.

Anthony Trollope

Love Marriage Man Feeling

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Anthony Trollope

Love Never Your Mine

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Anthony Trollope

Life Success Success Is Only

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.

Anthony Trollope

Nature World Nothing Will

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

Anthony Trollope

Reading Enjoyment Fade Habit

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

Anthony Trollope

Love Love Is You Luxury

Life is so unlike theory.

Anthony Trollope

Life Theory Unlike

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

Anthony Trollope

Way Writing Well Also

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

Anthony Trollope

Day Man Will Three

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