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.
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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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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 best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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