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.
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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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