Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo other American city is so intensely American as New York.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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What is there that money will not do?
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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