No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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