No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThis 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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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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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do 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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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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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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