A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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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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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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