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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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 I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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