One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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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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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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