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 TROLLOPEI doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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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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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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