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All Quotes by Anthony Trollope
- I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man…
- 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…
- They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have…
- It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
- It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
- 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…
- It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the…
- The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
- I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing.…
- To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the…
- Of all needs a book has, the chief need is to be readable.
- But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of…
- This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God…
- 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…
- Above all else, never think you're not good enough.
- But that his wife should be one of the performers, that she should be gazed at by a crowd as she tripped about, and that,…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle