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Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
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You can never teach them, except by the slow lesson of habit.
Anthony Trollope
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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
Anthony Trollope -
One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
Anthony Trollope -
She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.
Anthony Trollope -
No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.
Anthony Trollope -
Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.
Anthony Trollope -
It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.
Anthony Trollope
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It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.
Anthony Trollope -
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.
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The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.
Anthony Trollope -
We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and comfortless in the theory that we do not relish the prospect even for our children.
Anthony Trollope -
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.
Anthony Trollope -
The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
Anthony Trollope
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When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.
Anthony Trollope -
There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
Anthony Trollope -
The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
Anthony Trollope -
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
Anthony Trollope -
She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.
Anthony Trollope -
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
Anthony Trollope
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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.
Anthony Trollope -
The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont to extract more actual enjoyment from the music of his periods than from the strength of his arguments.
Anthony Trollope -
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
Anthony Trollope -
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.
Anthony Trollope