Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMake all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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