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 TROLLOPEThree hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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