There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of 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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What is there that money will not do?
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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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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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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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