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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMany people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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