But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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What 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.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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