Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMy sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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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.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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