No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEConsidering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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