The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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