Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAfter money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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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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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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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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