They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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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 very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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