There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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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.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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