# Quote — Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

> But Mr. Slide did not know that he was lying, and did not know that he was malicious. The weapon which he used was one to which his hand was accustomed, and he had been lead by practice to believe that the use of such weapons by one in his position was not only fair, but also beneficial to the public.

- 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.”
>
> “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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