When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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The 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.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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