Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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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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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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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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 think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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