Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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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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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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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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