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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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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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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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