A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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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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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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I 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. . .
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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 never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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