There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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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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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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