There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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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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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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