I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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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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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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 greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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