Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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