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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is such a difference between life and theory.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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