Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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