When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESuccess is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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