I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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