Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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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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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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