There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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What is there that money will not do?
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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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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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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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