Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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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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