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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. — Anthony Trollope

What is there that money will not do? — Anthony Trollope

They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts! — Anthony Trollope

I always love writing about children. — Joanna Trollope

There is such a difference between life and theory. — Anthony Trollope

There is an aptness, a propriety, a fitness in these things which one can understand perhaps better than explain. — Anthony Trollope

When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural. — Anthony Trollope

The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work. — Anthony Trollope

Life is so unlike theory. — Anthony Trollope

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end. — Anthony Trollope

It is no good any longer to have any opinion upon anything. — Anthony Trollope

I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not. — Joanna Trollope

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage. — Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER XLIII PERSECUTION — Anthony Trollope

The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters. — Joanna Trollope

the public is defrauded when it is purposely misled. Poor public! how often is it misled! against what a world of fraud has it to contend! — Anthony Trollope

Rest and quiet are the comforts of those who have been content to remain in obscurity. — Anthony Trollope

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. — Anthony Trollope

It seems to me that if a man can so train himself that he may live honestly and die fearlessly, he has done about as much as is necessary. — Anthony Trollope

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. — Anthony Trollope

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness. — Anthony Trollope

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another. — Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER LXXI 'MY OWN, OWN HUSBAND — Anthony Trollope

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. — Anthony Trollope

Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors. — Anthony Trollope

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that. — Joanna Trollope

Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !. — Anthony Trollope

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty. — Anthony Trollope

Men who think much want to speak often, — Anthony Trollope

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere. — Anthony Trollope

Short accounts make long friends. — Anthony Trollope

Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor. — Anthony Trollope

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. — Anthony Trollope

I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money. — Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER XV A FIT COMPANION, - FOR ME AND MY SISTERS — Anthony Trollope

That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man. — Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER LXIX SCROBBY'S TRIAL — Anthony Trollope

Her virtues were too numerous to describe, and not sufficiently interesting to deserve description. — Anthony Trollope

But, like some other undiplomatic ambassadors, in her desire to be civil, she ran at once to the extremity of the permitted concessions. — Anthony Trollope

He is no better than anybody else that I can see, and he is beginning to give himself airs, — Anthony Trollope

And so he walked on from day to day studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god. — Anthony Trollope

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. — Anthony Trollope

After all, then, she was not a clever woman, - not more clever than other women around her! — Anthony Trollope

He took such high ground that there was no getting on to it. — Anthony Trollope

A husband is very much like a house or a horse. — Anthony Trollope

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books. — Joanna Trollope

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer. — Anthony Trollope

The writer of stories must please, or he will be nothing. And he must teach whether he wish to teach or no. How — Anthony Trollope

No one but a preaching clergyman has, in these realms, the power of compelling an audience to sit silent and be tormented. — Anthony Trollope

There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false. — Anthony Trollope

Of one small circumstance that had occurred, he felt quite sure that Mr. Kennedy knew nothing. — Anthony Trollope

Men and women ain't lumps of sugar. They don't melt because the water is sometimes warm. — Anthony Trollope

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. — Anthony Trollope

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old. — Anthony Trollope

A thunderbolt at her feet could hardly have surprised or annoyed her more. If — Anthony Trollope

Must we be strangers, you and I, because there was a time in which we were almost more than friends? — Anthony Trollope

If one wants to keep one's self straight, one has to work hard at it, one way or the other. I suppose it all comes from the fall of Adam. — Anthony Trollope

Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart. — Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER LXXII 'BID HIM BE A MAN — Anthony Trollope

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. — Anthony Trollope

Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young! — Joanna Trollope

Of all reviews, the crushing review is the most popular, as being the most readable. — Anthony Trollope

When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable. — Anthony Trollope

No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others. — Anthony Trollope

But things had arranged themselves, as they often do, rather than been arranged by him. — Anthony Trollope

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle. — Anthony Trollope

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret. — Anthony Trollope

A sermon is not to tell you what you are, but what you ought to be, and a novel should tell you not what you are to get, but what you'd like to get. — Anthony Trollope

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it. — Anthony Trollope

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable. — Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER XLII MR. MAINWARING'S LITTLE DINNER — Anthony Trollope

Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May. — Anthony Trollope

We're so useful, we practical people. We hold it altogether. But we're seen as killjoys, somehow. Most unfair. — Joanna Trollope

When a man gets into his head an idea that the public voice calls for him, it is astonishing how great becomes his trust in the wisdom of the public. — Anthony Trollope

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant. — Anthony Trollope

It is not what one suffers that kills one, but what one knows that other people see that one suffers. — Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER XXI THE FIRST EVENING AT RUFFORD HALL — Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER XXXIV MARY'S LETTER — Anthony Trollope

Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome. — Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER XXIX THE SENATOR'S LETTER — Anthony Trollope

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves. — Anthony Trollope

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. — Anthony Trollope

When a man tells me that a horse is an armchair, I always tell him to put the brute into his bedroom. — Anthony Trollope

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places. — Anthony Trollope

Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more. — Anthony Trollope

Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself? — Anthony Trollope

I have all the world to choose from, but no reason whatever for a choice. — Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER LXXIX THE LAST DAYS OF MARY MASTERS — Anthony Trollope

He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so. — Anthony Trollope

But women can bear anything better than desertion. Cruelty is bad, but neglect is worse than cruelty, and desertion worse even than neglect. — Anthony Trollope

The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so. — Anthony Trollope

But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it? Who at least ever declined a love secret? What sister could do so? — Anthony Trollope

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden. — Anthony Trollope

Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless. — Anthony Trollope

Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future, - never reached but always coming. — Anthony Trollope

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people. — Anthony Trollope

The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth. — Anthony Trollope

My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens. — Kevin McCloud

CHAPTER XXXV CHOWTON FARM FOR SALE — Anthony Trollope