Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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