Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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