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 TROLLOPEIt 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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