The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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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It 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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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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