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He too, liked his party, and was fond of loyal men; but he had learned at last that all loyalty must be built on a basis of self-advantage. Patriotism may exist without it, but that which Erie called loyalty in politics was simply devotion to the side which a man conceives to be his side, and which he cannot leave without danger to himself.
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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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Mr. Browborough, whose life had not been passed in any strict obedience to the Ten Commandments, and whose religious observances had not hitherto interfered with either the pleasures or the duties of his life, repeated at every meeting which he attended, and almost to every elector whom he canvassed, the great Shibboleth which he had now adopted — The prosperity of England depends on the Church of her people.
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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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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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There would be a blaze and a confusion, in which timid men would doubt whether the constitution would be burned to tinder or only illuminated; but that blaze and that confusion would be dear to Mr. Daubney if he could stand as the centre figure, — the great pyrotechnist who did it all, red from head to foot with the glare of the squibs with which his own hands were filling all the spaces.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder, the concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women's voices?
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I show Baby, and Oswald shows the hounds. We've nothing else to interest anybody.
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Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.
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To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted to you, that the world looks on and approves, that some good is always being done to others — above all things some good to your country; — that is happiness.
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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.
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It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure.
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Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House?
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Then he would be penniless, with the world before him as a closed oyster to be again opened, and he knew, — no one better, — that this oyster becomes harder and harder in the opening as the man who has to open it becomes older.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
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The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont to extract more actual enjoyment from the music of his periods than from the strength of his arguments.
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She certainly had a little syllogism in her head as to the Duke ruling the borough, the Duke's wife ruling the Duke, and therefore the Duke's wife ruling the borough; but she did not think it prudent to utter this on the present occasion.
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No doubt there were other first cousins as badly off, or perhaps worse, as to whom the Duchess would care nothing whether they were rich or poor, — married or single; but then they were first cousins who had not had the advantage of interesting the Duchess.
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High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
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I know that you have indented to serve your country, and have wished to work for it. But you cannot expect that it should all be roses.
Roses! The nosegays which are worn down at Westminister are made of garlick and dandelions!
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He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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Anthony Trollope
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Born:
April 24, 1815
Died:
December 6, 1882
(aged 67)
Bio:
Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era.
Known for:
The Way We Live Now (1875)
The Warden (1855)
Barchester Towers (1857)
Doctor Thorne (1858)
Can You Forgive Her? (1864)
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