Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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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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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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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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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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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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