Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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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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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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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