The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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