When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhy is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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