It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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