Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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