We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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