But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETill we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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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 sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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 hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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