Let 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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