Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETaken 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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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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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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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.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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