After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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