I 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. . .
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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