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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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