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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
Anthony Trollope -
The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion.
Anthony Trollope -
Short accounts make long friends.
Anthony Trollope -
No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
Anthony Trollope -
What is there that money will not do?
Anthony Trollope
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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A bull in a china shop is not a useful animal, nor is he ornamental, but there can be no doubt of his energy. The hare was full of energy, but he didn't win the race. The man who stands still is the man who keeps his ground.
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I don't like anybody or anything," said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.
Anthony Trollope -
A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
Anthony Trollope -
A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.
Anthony Trollope
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The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
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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.
Anthony Trollope -
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
Anthony Trollope -
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
Anthony Trollope -
Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, 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 run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
Anthony Trollope
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My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.
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Never mingle love and business.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
Anthony Trollope -
To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.
Anthony Trollope