The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAny one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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It 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.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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