Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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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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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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