When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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