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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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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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