Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEHe should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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