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Life is so unlike theory.

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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
Autobiographer
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London
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Literature
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Life
Unlike
Theory

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A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
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I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.
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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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A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
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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.
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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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My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.
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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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Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
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Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
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Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.
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A Minister can always give a reason and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.
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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.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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