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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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