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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMy sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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