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 TROLLOPEAnd though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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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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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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