After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENever let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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