A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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