Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESuccess is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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.
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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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