When men think much, they can rarely decide.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAny one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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