People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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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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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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