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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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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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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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The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.
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The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth a barrister must be nothing if he do.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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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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I think I owe my life to cork soles.
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I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.
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What is there that money will not do?
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There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
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