I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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.
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The 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.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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