I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat is there that money will not do?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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