No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELove is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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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