Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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 small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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What is there that money will not do?
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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