No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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