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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELove is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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 little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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