No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESpeeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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