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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

Anthony Trollope

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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Enjoyment Flatter Greedy Learn Men Patriotism Pleasant Power Quick Require Themselves
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Cham Down One Only Peg Screw Thing
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Kick Man Over Pretty Room Say Seventy Show Unless Word
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Decrease English Estate Gentlemen Hand never Noblemen Preserve Resolution Such
Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Cigar Consume Dlow Drink Free Hour Lamp Late Midnight Moctunal Pleasurable Quickly Through Youth
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Advertise Anything Become Certainty Now Sell Sufficient
When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Anything Give Money Nobody When Come
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Carry Chance Disposal Favour Long Mean More Perhaps Shall Success
Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Bond Giant Little Man Packthread Right Rule
Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Boast Himself Least Let Man May Peril Seventh Through
Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Before Dollar Down Every House Knee Man Morning Night Regular Service Shrine Worship
Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Book Chief Need Readable
The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Chance Direction Forward Girl Good Husband Little Man Taste
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Adequate Could Indeed Ladder Life Men might Perfection Picture True
The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Being Fullest Hand Happiest Man Money Trouble Work
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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Another Choose Found Lie May Order Shunned Sin Thing Well Worse

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