Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPerhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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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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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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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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