When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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What is there that money will not do?
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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