It 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEDon’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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