Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBeware of creating tedium!
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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The 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.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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A 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.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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