Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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