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 TROLLOPEI am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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