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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople will take you very much at your own reckoning.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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