Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers (1857)

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

Anthony Trollope
The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

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In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways — Who was to be the new Bishop?

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

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There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries, than the neccessity of listening to sermons.

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

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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

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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.

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She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.

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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.

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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

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