There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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