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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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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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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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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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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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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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