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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.
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Though they were Liberals they were not democrats nor yet infidels.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.
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Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
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Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
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When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any subject, people are apt to suppose that they cannot hang together much longer.
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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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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.
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As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
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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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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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