I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENeither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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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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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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