One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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What is there that money will not do?
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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