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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 has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Advertise Anything Become Certainty Now Sell Sufficient
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 TROLLOPE

All Brought Closeness Grievous Hope Human Man Mind Most Obdrver Sufficient Thing Understand
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Coin Hemisphere More Sweetheart
The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Alloy Fade Habit Know One Only Other Pleasure Read When
Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Associate Awkward Ease Form Gaitstruglle Limb Men Often REquired Sky Urgainly Word Yet Young
There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Bliss Equal Hour Human Six Work
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
People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Much Own People Reckoning Take Your
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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Altogether Burn God Human Luxury Men Oppress Pas Pastor
People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Big Different Exactly Eye Mind Near People Seen Small Thing
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Acquirement Art Cut Learn No Road Royal Short
For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Folly Great Hidden Keep No Sorrow
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Daily Hercules Labor Really Small Spasmodic Task
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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Book Civil Coffee Cup Earth Ecer Everything Luxurious More
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Kick Man Over Pretty Room Say Seventy Show Unless Word
The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Circumstance Declare Dependent Duration Matter Nature Seem Simple Such Trail Understood

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