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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWe cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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