The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEEquality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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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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