Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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