Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETill we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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