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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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