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 TROLLOPEIf any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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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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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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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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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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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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