Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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