Every 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMake all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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