But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAbove all else, never think you’re not good enough.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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What is there that money will not do?
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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 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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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