He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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