No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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