I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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