Beware of creating tedium!
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThree hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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