If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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What is there that money will not do?
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Let 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.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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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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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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