Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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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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