# Quote — Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

> 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.

- Author: [Anthony Trollope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope.md)
- Book: [Phineas Redux](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux.md)
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> No doubt there were other first cousins as badly off, or perhaps worse, as to whom the Duchess would care nothing whether they were rich or poor, — married or single; but then they were first cousins who had not had the advantage of interesting the Duchess.

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> “Isn‘t there some trouble about money?”
>
> “They wouldn‘t be very rich, Duchess.”
>
> “What a blessing for them! But then, perhaps, they‘d be very poor.”
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> “They would be rather poor.”
>
> “Which is not a blessing.”

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> The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.

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