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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELove is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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