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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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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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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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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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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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 have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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