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 TROLLOPETaken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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 who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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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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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.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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