Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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