A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETravel 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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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 is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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