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 TROLLOPENever think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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