There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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