The 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople will take you very much at your own reckoning.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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But 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.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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