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 TROLLOPEIf any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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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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A 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.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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