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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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