Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople will take you very much at your own reckoning.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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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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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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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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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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