The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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