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Framley Parsonage

Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. It was first published in serial form in the Cornhill Magazine in 1860, then in book form in 1861.

“One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.”

Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage

Source: Framley Parsonage

“That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or a set of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer teats his sheep and oxen — makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and a soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.”

Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage

Source: Framley Parsonage (1861), Ch. 21

“It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.”

Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage

Source: Framley Parsonage (1861), Ch. 23

“Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear”

Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage

Source: Framley Parsonage (1861), Ch. 21

“I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.”

Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage

Source: Framley Parsonage (1861), Ch. 15

“A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.”

Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage

Source: Framley Parsonage (1861), Ch. 10

“When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.”

Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage

Source: Framley Parsonage (1861), Ch. 1, first lines

“It is a remarkable thing with reference to men who are distressed for money… they never seem at a loss for small sums, or deny themselves those luxuries which small sums purchase. Cabs, dinners, wine, theatres, and new gloves are always at the command of men who are drowned in pecuniary embarrassments, whereas those who don't owe a shilling are so frequently obliged to go without them!”

Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage

Framley Parsonage (1861)

“I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.”

Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage

Source: Framley Parsonage (1861), Ch. 10

“But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?”

Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage

Source: Framley Parsonage (1861), Ch. 26

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