It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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