It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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.
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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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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about 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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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