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 TROLLOPEWhen it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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