Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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