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 TROLLOPECaveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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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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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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