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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESuch young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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.
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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 can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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