No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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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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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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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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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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