I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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 man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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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 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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