Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople will take you very much at your own reckoning.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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Travel 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.
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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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