People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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