Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETravel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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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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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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