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Anthony Trollope

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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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Above all else, never think you're not good enough.
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I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.
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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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Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear
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Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.
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If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.
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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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To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted to you, that the world looks on and approves, that some good is always being done to others -- above all things some good to your country -- that is happiness.
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Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
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