Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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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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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.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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