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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPerhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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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.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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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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