It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIs 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?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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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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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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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 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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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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 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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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