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As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
Anthony Trollope
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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
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The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.
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To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted to you, that the world looks on and approves, that some good is always being done to others -- above all things some good to your country -- that is happiness.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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