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 TROLLOPEThe concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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