Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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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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