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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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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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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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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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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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 man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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