But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined 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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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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