There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is such a difference between life and theory.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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