Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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 double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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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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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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