No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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 happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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