Quote #62
It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
More from Anthony Trollope
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- Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absemce, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
- She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere.
- It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
- 'I can never bring myself to believe it, John,' said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney, of Silverbridge.
- There is such a difference between life and theory.