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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

Anthony Trollope

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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Apt Complaint Enough Envious God Hate Humility Manliness Spiteful Succes Want
Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Decrease English Estate Gentlemen Hand never Noblemen Preserve Resolution Such
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Audacity Gret Measure Virtue Wool
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Come Easy Misfortune Necessary Success Very Unfortunate
Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Boast Himself Least Let Man May Peril Seventh Through
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Dose Poison Small Success Taken
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 TROLLOPE

Affair Always Any Hedge Horse Look Man Prominent Steal
Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Country Course Herself Lady never People Person Suckie Young
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Also Easily No Way Well Write
If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Claim Evidence Follies Once Out Point Special Such Wisdom
Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Bond Giant Little Man Packthread Right Rule
But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Brightest Corner Eye House Lamp Ligh Sparkle Special Thing
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Gentlemen More Much Nobleman
The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Always Concrete Ear Listener Meet Outside Sound Voice Women
Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Brave Certainty Credit Favor Fortune Give Most Themselves Unlimited World
When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Allegiance Direction Have Married Once Own Regard Sex Thrown Treacherous Women

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