The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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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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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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