Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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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.
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