That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETravel 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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