But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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