The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEEvery 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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