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

Quote by Anthony Trollope

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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible...

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible...

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

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

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined....

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined....

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted...

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted...

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god...

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god...

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

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

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty...

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty...

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the...

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the...

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear...

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear...

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.