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Anthony Trollope Inspirational Quotes (160)

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Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.
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Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
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Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable not because it is desirable to have something to do.
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It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith.
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Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.
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Life is so unlike theory.
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He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
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Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
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The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
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The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength, no tyrant can be above it. But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, and of duty, and of nobility and tell me what they require of you.
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The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.
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Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.
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When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to that rule, unless it call upon us to do something that is actually wrong. One should not offend the prejudices of the world, even if one is quite sure that they are prejudices.
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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.
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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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Above all else, never think you're not good enough.
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No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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