It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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