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?
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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