The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBeware of creating tedium!
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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