I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESuccess is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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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.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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