A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is such a difference between life and theory.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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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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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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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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