People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEEquality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMy sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMake all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESuccess is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhy is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAnd though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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