Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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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.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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