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It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
Anthony Trollope
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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.
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Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
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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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