Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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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 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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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What is there that money will not do?
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