The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPECham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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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.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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