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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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