No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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 mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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