The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAbove all else, never think you’re not good enough.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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