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 TROLLOPEIt is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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