Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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