I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAfter money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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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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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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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 is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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