There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEEvery man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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