It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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