Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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