There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThree hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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.
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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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 ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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