I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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