But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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