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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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