I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPower 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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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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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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