I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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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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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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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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