No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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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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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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