The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Let 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.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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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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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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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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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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