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 never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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 ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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