I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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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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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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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.
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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.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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