I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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 think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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