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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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