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 TROLLOPEThey are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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