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 TROLLOPEIt 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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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