I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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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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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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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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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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