Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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