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.
Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. - Anthony Trollope
Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
- Anthony Trollope
Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great und… - Anthony Trollope
Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great und…
If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high. - Anthony Trollope
If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. - Anthony Trollope
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman. - Anthony Trollope
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !. - Anthony Trollope
Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !.
One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it. - Anthony Trollope
One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself. - Anthony Trollope
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. - Anthony Trollope
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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