There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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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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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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