Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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