Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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