But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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