There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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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.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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