The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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What is there that money will not do?
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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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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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