Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is such a difference between life and theory.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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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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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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