Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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