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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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 hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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What is there that money will not do?
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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