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.
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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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