It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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What is there that money will not do?
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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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.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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