There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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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 who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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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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