But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPoverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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