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 TROLLOPEA 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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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.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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