Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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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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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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