The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESuccess is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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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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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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