Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople will take you very much at your own reckoning.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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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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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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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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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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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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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