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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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