My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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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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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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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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