There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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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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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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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