Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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