It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThose who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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