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Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.
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I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.
Anthony Trollope
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
Anthony Trollope -
Marvellous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
Anthony Trollope -
Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.
Anthony Trollope -
I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.
Anthony Trollope -
There would be a blaze and a confusion, in which timid men would doubt whether the constitution would be burned to tinder or only illuminated; but that blaze and that confusion would be dear to Mr. Daubney if he could stand as the centre figure, the great pyrotechnist who did it all, red from head to foot with the glare of the squibs with which his own hands were filling all the spaces.
Anthony Trollope -
To be alone with the girl to whom he is not engaged, is a man's delight; - to be alone with the man to whom she is engaged is the woman's.
Anthony Trollope
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
Anthony Trollope -
Because we have been removing restraints on Papal aggression, while other nations have been imposing restraints. There are those at Rome who believe all England to be Romish at heart, because here in England a Roman Catholic can say what he will, and print what he will.
Anthony Trollope -
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
Anthony Trollope -
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.
Anthony Trollope -
Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks, meet at this or that delicious haunt of salubrity, the affairs of the world are then settled in little conclaves, with grater ease, rapidity, and certainty than in large parliaments or the dull chambers of public offices?
Anthony Trollope -
When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.
Anthony Trollope
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Always remember, Mr. Robarts, that when you go into an attorney's office door, you will have to pay for it, first or last.
Anthony Trollope -
But how shall I excuse it? There are things done which are as holy as the heavens, - which are clear before God as the light of the sun, which leave no stain on the conscience, and which yet the malignity of man can invest with the very blackness of hell!
Anthony Trollope -
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
Anthony Trollope -
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
Anthony Trollope -
He could find no cure for his grief; but he did know that continued occupation would relieve him, and therefore he occupied himself continually.
Anthony Trollope -
I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.
Anthony Trollope
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Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.
Anthony Trollope -
She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.
Anthony Trollope -
Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear
Anthony Trollope -
She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere.
Anthony Trollope