There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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