Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOne 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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What is there that money will not do?
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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