The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAudacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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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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