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If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.
Anthony Trollope
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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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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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You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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