A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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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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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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