What is there that money will not do?
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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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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