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No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.
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 man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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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Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
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I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.
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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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If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
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