One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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