Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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