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 TROLLOPEI judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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A 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.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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