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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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