It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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