No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople 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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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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