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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
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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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Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
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I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.
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The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Though they were Liberals they were not democrats nor yet infidels.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.
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When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Above all else, never think you're not good enough.
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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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