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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.

Anthony Trollope

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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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Short accounts make long friends.
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There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.
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But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to that rule, unless it call upon us to do something that is actually wrong. One should not offend the prejudices of the world, even if one is quite sure that they are prejudices.
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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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When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.
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