The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERomance 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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