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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo other American city is so intensely American as New York.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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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