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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo other American city is so intensely American as New York.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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What is there that money will not do?
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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