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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.
Anthony Trollope
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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith.
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Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Easy reading requires hard writing.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.
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When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.
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This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.
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A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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