I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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