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“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
― Charlotte Bronte

“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
― Anthony Trollope

“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?”
― Anthony Trollope, The Warden

“Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.”
― Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers

“To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds

“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.”
― Anthony Trollope

“But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing. ”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.”
― Anthony Trollope

“This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.”
― Anthony Trollope

“If I had a husband I should want a good one, a man with a head on his shoulders, and a heart. Even if I were young and good-looking, I doubt whether I could please myself. As it is I am likely to be taken bodily to heaven, as to become any man's wife.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“He's a very handsome man, is the captain," said Jeaneatte. . .
"You shouldn't think about handsome men, child," said Mrs. Greenow.
"And I'm sure I don't," said Jeanette. "Not more than anybody else; but if a man is handsome, ma'am, why, it stands to reason that he is handsome.”
― Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?

“The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.”
― Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers

“There are some people, if you can only get to learn the length of their feet, you can always fit them with shoes afterwards.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“The old family carriage and the two lady's maids were there,--as necessaries of life; but London society was not within her reach. It was therefore the case that they had not heard very much about Lizzie Eustace. But they had heard something. "I hope she won't be too fond of going out," said Amelia, the second girl.

"Or extravagant," said Georgina, the third.

"There was some story of her being terribly in debt when she married Sir Florian Eustace," said Diana, the fourth.

"Frederic will be sure to see to that," said Augusta, the eldest.

"She is very beautiful," said Lydia, the fifth.

"And clever," said Cecilia, the sixth.

"Beauty and cleverness won't make a good wife," said Amelia, who was the wise one of the family.

"Frederic will be sure to see that she doesn't go wrong," said Augusta who was not wise.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds

“Of course he had committed forgery;--of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

“What had passed between Eleanor Harding and Mary Bold need not be told. It is indeed a matter of thankfulness that neither the historian nor the novelist hears all that is said by their heroes or heroines, or how would three volumes or twenty suffice!”
― Anthony Trollope , The Warden

“She became aware that she had thought the less of him because he had thought the more of her. She had worshipped this other man because he had assumed superiority and had told her that he was big enough to be her master. But now, -- now that it was all too late, -- the veil had fallen from her eyes. She could now see the difference between manliness and 'deportment.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister

“A man who desires to soften another man's heart, should always abuse himself. In softening a woman's heart, he should abuse her.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“Who would ever think of learning to live out of an English novel?”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“My dear, the truth must be spoken. I declare I don't think I ever saw a young woman so improvident as you are. When are you to begin to think about getting married if you don't do it now?"
"I shall never begin to think about it, till I buy my wedding clothes.”
― Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?

“I have passed the period of a woman's life when as a woman she is loved; but I have have not outlived the power of loving.”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“When a man gets into his head an idea that the public voice calls for him, it is astonishing how great becomes his trust in the wisdom of the public.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“The end of a novel, like the end of children’s dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plum”
― Anthony Trollope

“Wine is a dangerous thing, and should not be made the exponent of truth, let the truth be good as it may; but it has the merit of forcing a man to show his true colors.”
― Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

“But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister