Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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