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Quotes from An Autobiography — Anthony Trollope

1815–1882 England

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

An Autobiography (1883)

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

An Autobiography (1883)

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.

An Autobiography (1883)

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.

An Autobiography (1883)

Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.

An Autobiography (1883)

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

An Autobiography (1883)

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little — or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

An Autobiography (1883)

He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognise me by my face.

An Autobiography (1883)

As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, — in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can hardly measure the strength of the blows he gives.

An Autobiography (1883)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anthony Trollope (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.