Anthony Trollope Quote

It is out of nature that any man should think it good that his own order should be repressed, curtailed, and deprived of its power. If we go among cab-drivers or letter-carriers, among butlers or gamekeepers, among tailors or butchers, among farmers or grazers, among doctors or attorneys, we shall find in each set of men a conviction that the welfare of the community depends upon the firmness with which they, — especially they, — hold their own.


Ch. 33 - Phineas Redux (1874)


It is out of nature that any man should think it good that his own order should be repressed, curtailed, and deprived of its power. If we go among...

It is out of nature that any man should think it good that his own order should be repressed, curtailed, and deprived of its power. If we go among...

It is out of nature that any man should think it good that his own order should be repressed, curtailed, and deprived of its power. If we go among...

It is out of nature that any man should think it good that his own order should be repressed, curtailed, and deprived of its power. If we go among...