Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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