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 TROLLOPENeither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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