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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... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
Anthony Trollope
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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.
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A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
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Short accounts make long friends.
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There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards - When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.
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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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