When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAfter money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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