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.
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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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