Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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The 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.
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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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