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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.

Anthony Trollope

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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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Adequate Could Indeed Ladder Life Men might Perfection Picture True
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Good Himself Hold Low Man Nobody Opinion
No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Dare Ever Imitate No Novelist Style Young
Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Character Charity Consider Discuss Given Much Other Spirit Structure
A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Always Brood Court Drop Feeling Heart Hour Injured Own Plead Successfully
The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Carry Chance Disposal Favour Long Mean More Perhaps Shall Success
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Clearly Come Habot Himself Msecvem Critic Soon Write Writer
I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Anything Ashamed Bid
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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Altogether Change Character Expect Girl Himself Man Married New Put Shall Suit Think Wife Woman
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Apt Complaint Enough Envious God Hate Humility Manliness Spiteful Succes Want
There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Console Establish Generally Grievance Man Noting Perhaps Well
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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Alloy Fade Habit Know One Only Other Pleasure Read When
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Another Choose Found Lie May Order Shunned Sin Thing Well Worse
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Best Dress Gentlemen Hols Observe
But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Decline Ever Offer Secret Yet
When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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Allegiance Direction Have Married Once Own Regard Sex Thrown Treacherous Women

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