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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.

Anthony Trollope

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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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Enjoyment Flatter Greedy Learn Men Patriotism Pleasant Power Quick Require Themselves
But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Decline Ever Offer Secret Yet
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Circumstance Declare Dependent Duration Matter Nature Seem Simple Such Trail Understood
Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Enough Good Man never Think
The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Alloy Fade Habit Know One Only Other Pleasure Read When
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Come Easy Misfortune Necessary Success Very Unfortunate
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Esteem Long Love Lst Much Passionate Rarely Troublesome Valuable Very
Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Attain Could Equality Heaven
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

All Attempt City Country Fall Foreign Great Grievously Most Short Taken Thing Together Unsatisfactory
For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Folly Great Hidden Keep No Sorrow
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Dar Express Man Many Much Proud Reall Regretted Spoken Women Word
No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Dare Ever Imitate No Novelist Style Young
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Coin Hemisphere More Sweetheart
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Charm Double Down Life Oneself Opponent Pill Pleasure Politician Raise
There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Another Catch Done Hear never Presence Salmon Some Achievement
Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Above All Else Enough Good never Think

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