If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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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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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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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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