I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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