No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAudacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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