The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople will take you very much at your own reckoning.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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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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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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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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 double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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