The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELike 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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