It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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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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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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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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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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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