If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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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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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain 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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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