The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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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