No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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