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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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What is there that money will not do?
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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