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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
Anthony Trollope
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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.
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When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any subject, people are apt to suppose that they cannot hang together much longer.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
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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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Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
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Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.
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It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.
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It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,--should you choose to go on with my chronicle,--simply in the conduct of my persons, during this disclosure to others.
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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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He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
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The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
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Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable not because it is desirable to have something to do.
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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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There's nothing like going on with a thing.
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When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
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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 devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
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But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.
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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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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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