One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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