A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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