When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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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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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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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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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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 man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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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.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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