There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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