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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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 think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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