Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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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.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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