There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt 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.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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