Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESuccess is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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