Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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