The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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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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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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