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 TROLLOPEThree hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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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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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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