If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat is there that money will not do?
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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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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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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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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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