But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEFortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERomance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIn 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETravel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThree hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAudacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAfter money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEEvery 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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