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 TROLLOPEI cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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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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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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