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 TROLLOPENo man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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