Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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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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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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