# Quote — Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister

> "Aid from heaven you may have," he said, "by saying your prayers; and I don't doubt you ask for this and all other things generally. But an angel won't come to tell you who ought to be Chancellor of the Exchequer."

- Author: [Anthony Trollope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope.md)
- Book: [The Prime Minister](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/the-prime-minister.md)
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> Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.

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> He had so accustomed himself to wield the constitutional cat-of-nine-tails, that heaven will hardly be happy to him unless he be allowed to flog the cherubim.

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> People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.

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