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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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