When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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