It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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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.
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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 is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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