There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMake all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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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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