It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMake all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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What is there that money will not do?
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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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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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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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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