When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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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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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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