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When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any subject, people are apt to suppose that they cannot hang together much longer.
Anthony Trollope
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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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There's nothing like going on with a thing.
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When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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