No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENever think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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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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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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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