Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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 am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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