When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPassionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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