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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhom 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?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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