It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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