Amusement Quote by Frances Trollope

“I never saw any people who appeared to live so much without amusement as the Cincinnatians… Were it not for the churches,... Ithink there might be a general bonfire of best bonnets, for I never could discover any other use for them.” quote by Frances Trollope — Download Open image

“I never saw any people who appeared to live so much without amusement as the Cincinnatians… Were it not for the churches,... Ithink there might be a general bonfire of best bonnets, for I never could discover any other use for them.”

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it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They inveigh against the governments of Europe, because, as they say, they favor the powerful and oppress the weak. ... [yet] you will see them with one hand hoisting the cap of liberty, and with the other flogging their…

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I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who ever set lance in rest; but I do, in truth, believe that this knightly sensitiveness of honorable feeling is the best antidote to the petty soul-degrading transactions of every-day life, and that the total…

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“Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of cities in the days of her glory, receives into its lap tribute of all the riches of the earth. - Frances Trollope (1827)”

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