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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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