I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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.
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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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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