# Quote — Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

> The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont to extract more actual enjoyment from the music of his periods than from the strength of his arguments.

- 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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