There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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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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Of 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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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