Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThis habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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 have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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