The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThree hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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 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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