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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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