I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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