But then the pastors and men of God can only be humancannot altogether be men of God and so they have oppressed us and burned us and tortured us and hence come to love palaces and fine linen and purple and alas sometimes mere luxury and idleness.
Anthony Trollope
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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.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
- Anthony Trollope