There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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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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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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