Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETaken 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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What is there that money will not do?
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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