Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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