The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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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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