The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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 is another.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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