Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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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.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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What is there that money will not do?
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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