Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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 are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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