I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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