There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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