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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.
Anthony Trollope
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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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What is there that money will not do?
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The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder, the concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women's voices?
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