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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThose who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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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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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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