Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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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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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.
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