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 TROLLOPENever let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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 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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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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 are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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