Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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