No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThose who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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