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 TROLLOPENo other American city is so intensely American as New York.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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What is there that money will not do?
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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