The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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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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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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