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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPECham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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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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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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