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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEHe should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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