Anthony Trollope - People Quotes

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Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Anthony Trollope
When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any subject, people are apt to suppose that they cannot hang together much longer.

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'It's in Tipperary—not at all a desirable country to live in.'
'Oh, dear, no! Don't they murder the people?'

Anthony Trollope
But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.

Anthony Trollope
People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.

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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.

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Mr. Browborough, whose life had not been passed in any strict obedience to the Ten Commandments, and whose religious observances had not hitherto interfered with either the pleasures or the duties of his life, repeated at every meeting which he attended, and almost to every elector whom he canvassed, the great Shibboleth which he had now adopted — The prosperity of England depends on the Church of her people.

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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.

Anthony Trollope
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.

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Some people fall to their feet like cats; but you are one of those who never fall at all. Others tumble about in the most unfortunate way, without any great fault of their own.

Anthony Trollope
But he could stand up with unabashed brow and repeat with enduring audacity the same words a dozen times over — The prosperity of England depends on the Church of her people. Had he been asked whether the prosperity which he promised was temporal or spiritual in its nature, not only would he not have answered, but he would not in the least have understood the question.

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