Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELate hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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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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