Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers…
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I cannot hold with those who want to put down the insignificant chatter of the world
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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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. Like his master he is…
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Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and…
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I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man…
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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…
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the…
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and…
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But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor…
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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