The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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