There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Caveat 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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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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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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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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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