Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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This 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.
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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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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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The 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.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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