Anthony Trollope Quotes About Literature
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Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.
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Life is so unlike theory.
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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
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Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
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What is there that money will not do?
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Is it not singular how some men continue to obtain the reputation of popular authorship without adding a word to the literature of their country worthy of note?? To puff and to get one's self puffed have become different branches of a new profession.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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 have read - nay, I have bought! - Carlyle's 'Latter Day Pamphlets,' and look on my eight shillings as very much thrown away. To me it appears that the grain of sense is so smothered up in a sack of the sheerest trash, that the former is valueless....I look on him as a man who was always in danger of going mad in literature and who has now done so.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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 hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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