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 TROLLOPEI cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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