Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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