Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThree hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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