Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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