Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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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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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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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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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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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