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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENeither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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