Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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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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