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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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.
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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