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.
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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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