But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined 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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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