No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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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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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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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 ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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