Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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