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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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