Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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