Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
ANTHONY TROLLOPECaveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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