Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEFortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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