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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
Anthony Trollope
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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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I am ready to obey as a child :but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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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.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love? It is necessary because the passion is one which interests or has interested all. Everyone feels it, has felt it, or expects to feel it.
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