But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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