But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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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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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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