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 TROLLOPEWhen a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do 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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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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 judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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