Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELove is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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