No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPassionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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