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.
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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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 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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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 who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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