I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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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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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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