No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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A 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.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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