Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
ANTHONY TROLLOPEFortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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