I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI 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. . .
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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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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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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