Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETaken 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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