No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPerhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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