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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.
Anthony Trollope
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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.
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An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.
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I am ready to obey as a child :but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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.
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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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A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party but the system has now gone out of vogue.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Above all else, never think you're not good enough.
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