# Quote — Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister

> Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks, meet at this or that delicious haunt of salubrity, the affairs of the world are then settled in little conclaves, with grater ease, rapidity, and certainty than in large parliaments or the dull chambers of public offices?

- Author: [Anthony Trollope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope.md)
- Book: [The Prime Minister](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/the-prime-minister.md)
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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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> He had so accustomed himself to wield the constitutional cat-of-nine-tails, that heaven will hardly be happy to him unless he be allowed to flog the cherubim.

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> People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.

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