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 TROLLOPEOf all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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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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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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 concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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