Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEFor there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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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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