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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEFor there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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