It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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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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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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