And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople will take you very much at your own reckoning.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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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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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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