For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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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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Travel 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.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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