The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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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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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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