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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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