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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.

Anthony Trollope

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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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Angry Done Incline Little Naturally Other Proof Reach Singular Speak Think
I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Chatter Down Hold Insignificant Put Those Wish World
The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Always Concrete Ear Listener Meet Outside Sound Voice Women
But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Decline Ever Offer Secret Yet
Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Book Chief Need Readable
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Audacity Gret Measure Virtue Wool
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 TROLLOPE

All Attempt City Country Fall Foreign Great Grievously Most Short Taken Thing Together Unsatisfactory
Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Affair Always Any Hedge Horse Look Man Prominent Steal
Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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Attorney Existence Most Own Riugish Suppose Trust
Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Doubt Fashion Life Measure Men Place Politics Public Say
But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Die Ever Fact Known Mad Man never Nothing Trouble Well
If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Between Cook Made Make Soup Two Seven Week
Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Enough Good Man never Think
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 TROLLOPE

Another Choose Found Lie May Order Shunned Sin Thing Well Worse
There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Between Differences Life Such Theory
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Greatest Honesty Most Rogues Talk Think

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