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 TROLLOPEWine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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