I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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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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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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