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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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