Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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