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 TROLLOPEThe circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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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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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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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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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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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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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.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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