There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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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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