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.


Letter to G W Rusden dated June 8, 1876, published in The Letters of Anthony Trollope (1983), p. 691.

Anthony Trollope Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...