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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
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It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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Though they were Liberals they were not democrats nor yet infidels.
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He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
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Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.
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It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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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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The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.
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She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.
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The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.
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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
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