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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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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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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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