# Quote — Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister

> 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.

- Author: [Anthony Trollope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope.md)
- Book: [The Prime Minister](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/the-prime-minister.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/the-prime-minister/but-as-we-do-not

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> Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.

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> He had so accustomed himself to wield the constitutional cat-of-nine-tails, that heaven will hardly be happy to him unless he be allowed to flog the cherubim.

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> People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.

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