Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENeither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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