Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo other American city is so intensely American as New York.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The 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.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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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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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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