The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
ANTHONY TROLLOPECham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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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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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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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.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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