I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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