I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELike his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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