A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMany people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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In 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.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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 am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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