Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEEquality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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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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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined 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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Beware of creating tedium!
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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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