Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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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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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Every 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.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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