After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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 habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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