I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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