I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople will take you very much at your own reckoning.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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