Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about 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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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