Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETill we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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