Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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 lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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