The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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