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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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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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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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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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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 have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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