The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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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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