The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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